Aleksa Palladino Quotes
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
Quotes to Explore
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
